If data is more openly available as XML over HTTP, it’s going to be pretty damn easy for a smart hacker to get access to that data to make applications like this impressive example… which is great, but undoubtedly someone eventually will feel like their data is being “stolen” or “misused”. Reverse engineering HTML was [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2005
Whirlycache 0.7.1 Released
4/15/2005 – 12:49 pm
Whirlycache 0.7.1 has been released. Cocoon support has been improved, thanks to Eric Meyer, Peter Royal and Gregor Rothfuss and a bug in remove() has been fixed, also by Peter Royal.
Ruby: First Impressions
4/13/2005 – 10:40 pm
Well, it’s effectively killed Perl. Ruby, that is. That was my first reaction. This past weekend, I had some small digital housekeeping work to do involving some manipulations in a MySQL database. Mundane stuff: get records from database, perform some string manipulations, insert new records. Historically, my language of choice for this type of work [...]
Passwords
4/9/2005 – 11:18 pm
Maybe my brain is losing capacity, but I really feel like I have too many passwords. I simply wish that I could just give out a public key to everything I need to authenticate with. This isn’t going to happen soon because getting agreement on how to manage keys and authentication would be as successful [...]
Is MAPS not dead yet?
4/6/2005 – 8:47 pm
A story posted on Slashdot today clearly highlights some of the problems with DNS-based blacklists that I outlined in my Moving Beyond RBLs paper in 2003. Today’s post on /. clearly shows why blacklists are inherently biased against small businesses and other entities which have a small proportional value in the network. cozaar